As air quality improves and with winter gone, the Supreme Court-mandated Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) is likely to lift the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) from M ...More

The environment ministry hopes to bring down air pollution in around 100 non-attainment cities by 50 per cent in the next five years under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), Union minister Harsh ...More

BENGALURU: The announcement of the Union Budget on February 1 has upset the environmentalists. The reason is not that Bengaluru was not allotted funds for the rejuvenation of lakes or to tackle air po ...More

With increasing evidence that inefficient traditional chullahs — cooking stoves — in rural households are the largest source of indoor air pollution, scientists at the Nagpur-based National Environmen ...More

New Delhi: The environment ministry said on Tuesday that it will set up a “war room” in the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) premises to monitor the daily progress of efforts to mitigate the air ...More

NEW DELHI: While 2017 saw Delhi battling severe air pollution, the transport department responded to the crisis by cracking down on vehicular pollution on a war footing. Track the pollution level in ...More

As a public policy and environmental researcher, I often spend a good part of my working day understanding data and numbers, particularly on air quality, in order to decipher trends and impacts. The m ...More

The Delhi government will procure 2,000 buses for public transport this year and start a large scale tree plantation drive as part of efforts to reduce air pollution in the national capital, Chief Min ...More

MUMBAI’S SKIES were covered in a thick haze on Tuesday. The air quality dipped to ‘very poor’ on the day, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) touching 271 — worst level to be recorded in the city this ye ...More

New Delhi [India], Feb.6 (ANI): Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan today reviewed the preparations for the two-week long drill to contain air pollution in Delhi, with off ...More

In these columns, we have been presenting the public health implications of different aspects of solid waste management activities in Indian cities. Today we spell out how such improvement will also r ...More

The Delhi government is working on a multi-department action plan to tackle the high levels of pollution in the region, The Times of Indiareported on Monday. The proposal will be incorporated in the 2 ...More

NEW DELHI: With alarmingly high pollution levels in the capital raising serious health concerns, the Aam Aadmi Party government has decided to come up with a multi-department action plan in the 2018-1 ...More

NEW DELHI: An experimental station being run by the Central Pollution Control Board to monitor some toxic trace gases shows the capital's air doesn't just have very high particulate matter levels, but ...More

The Delhi government is working on a multi-department action plan to tackle the high levels of pollution in the region, The Times of Indiareported on Monday. The proposal will be incorporated in the 2 ...More

Send proposals on how to curb air pollution, Sisodia tells heads of departments Proposals that could lead to a reduction in air pollution and generate revenue for environment-friendly initiatives wil ...More

CHENNAI: Air quality in the coastal city of Chennai in the past two months was consistently poor with all the samples designated as at least 'unhealthy' as per US standards, an international expert sa ...More

NEW DELHI: An experimental station being run by the Central Pollution Control Board to monitor some toxic trace gases shows the capital's air doesn't just have very high particulate matter levels, but ...More

CHENNAI: Air quality in the coastal city of Chennai in the past two months was consistently poor with all the samples designated as at least 'unhealthy' as per US standards, an international expert sa ...More

The Union Budget 2018-19 has left the environment sector in the lurch as it is "neither populous nor helping 'Ease of Doing' business", with the government's special scheme to combat air pollution bei ...More